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Voss, Texas

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Talpa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76888. The Survey maps it on the Voss quadrangle. It stands 1,634 feet above sea level.

Voss within Coleman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

18 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Voss between 2007 and 2020, burning about 1,909 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceFM 503 VOSS
2 September 2007Debris and open burning30 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceTUCKER
27 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use200 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHOJUMPA PLACE
15 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined96 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSHREDDER
13 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
9 February 2008Smoking50 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
7 February 2007Debris and open burning18 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coleman County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Voss in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death and 4 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2000Thunderstorm WindVoss1 killed, 4 hurt, $50,000Severe thunderstorm winds struck O.H. Ivie Reservoir, capsizing 10 to 15 boats on the lake. Tragically, one person was killed and 4 others injured when the boat they were in was pushed into a bluff and capsized.
May 2024HailVoss-Public reported baseball size hail 5 miles north of Stacy.
May 2006HailVoss-no account filed
February 2005HailVoss-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coleman County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Mozelle4.0 miles12
Fisk5.2 miles13
Gouldbusk6.4 miles12
Leaday (historical)6.9 miles15
Shields7.5 miles12
Valera9.1 miles11
Hays Crossing12.4 miles14
Rockwood13.0 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on VossAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7942037The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380730. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.